Mayweather ducked Margarito

A million threads on this topic, contribute to one. Its clear this is bait anyway, bringing up news over a decade old. Closing this.

He did! He retired right as the division was hot, Cotto, Paul Williams and Margarito were all good opponents, but he retired. Don't forget that Floyd also retired rather than give Oscar the rematch that was in the contract, that is why Oscar fought Manny, the same guy that Floyd ducked for years. History will not be good for a guy that cherry picked and fought fighters at the right time (for him). His resume at 147 could have been better, but he went for easy fights (Berto for God's sake after Berto was washed up) yeah...history wont be kind to floyd! LMFAO espn named him fighter of the decade and the top p4p fighter of the last 25 years.....holy **** the hate is unreal

When did Arum say that? try reading the link i posted...jesus....its like im talking to an infant

https://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2420382 Arum said while Mayweather would have taken the $8 million to fight Margarito, he asked for a $10 million guarantee to fight opponents such as Miguel Cotto and Ricky Hatton, when Arum was only willing to guarantee $7 million. Arum said Mayweather also asked for $20 million to fight De La Hoya, a fight Arum said he wasn't interested in participating in. "That's not in the cards," Arum said. "He wants $20 million for the De La Hoya fight? It's not there. Sometimes, my man, you gotta know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. We'll talk about things down the road." Arum said he was simply not interested in participating in a De La Hoya-Mayweather fight, but not because of his distaste for De La Hoya. "I don't want to, because if I did that fight, I would be working for such a small percentage, it's not worth it," he said. try reading dummies

He did! He retired right as the division was hot, Cotto, Paul Williams and Margarito were all good opponents, but he retired. Don't forget that Floyd also retired rather than give Oscar the rematch that was in the contract, that is why Oscar fought Manny, the same guy that Floyd ducked for years. History will not be good for a guy that cherry picked and fought fighters at the right time (for him). His resume at 147 could have been better, but he went for easy fights (Berto for God's sake after Berto was washed up)

Lol lol lol, every fighters has ducked someone. Why get but hurt over this with Floyd and bring up other fighters who have ducked. Fact is at that time Floyd was shook by Margs. Hindsight is 20-20 now and everyone can say Floyd would have beat him anyways and Margs is a cheat. But back then none of that was part of their career. At that time, Floyd was shook and dude was no ready for that version of Margs. It was a huge duck because back then that shít was a major topic, so major it’s still talked about today. Floyd didn’t want no part of that version of Margs. its "butt" not "but" and im far from hurt over this....i could ask you the same question "why even make your reply"? i answered it for the same reason...its a boxing forum and were here to discuss it it was a major topic because floyd is a major topic...he still is today....this thread is just another example...and floyd has a ton of haters that love to perpetuate "ducks" that floyd is some "fraud"....and you know all of this is true ive already presented facts....arum said straight up floyd left him because he wouldnt guarantee him 10 mil each for hatton and cotto fights and wouldnt try to make the oscar fight.....arum said floyd would have taken the margs fight if bob had complied

yeah floyd fought baldomir...but he was positioning himself for an oscar fight....which was the fight arum told him he would not make because hed lose money

Well he didn’t turn down margs to fight ODLH. Floyd choose the easier road and fought Baldomir instead. Bob offered Floyd 8 mill for Margs. Floyd insteasc bought out his contract for a think half a million or something like that and choose to fight baldomir for a supposed 8 mill plus one dollar. No matter how much a person hates margs (now), or is in love with Floyd. It was a duck plain and simple. ok...then golovkin ducked lara and ducked andre ward too right? if i go pick a fighter and then go through every decent fighter in his division at the time and he didnt fight one i can call it a duck?

nah...arum said that he would have fought margarito if he stayed....and bob said floyd wanted 10 mil guarantees for cotto and hatton fights and that bob would only do 7 each and thats why floyd bought himself out....bob also said part of why floyd bought himself out was that bob told him he wouldnt do that oscar fight because bob felt hed lose money its all right here https://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2420382 try reading through it bob was all nice nice with floyd right there.....because bob thought floyd was still gonna use top rank to promote his fights the way he ended up using schaeffer and golden boy....when floyd started working with golden boy bob flipped out and tried to perpetuate the myth that floyd was ducking that scrub

But that was the most direct call out ever Pure gangster **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRueJoZM8u8&t=149s Lmao that part of Floydette looking over his shoulder to see if Margarito was still around was hilarious

Yeah that call out was real g *****. I wish more guys would just walk up and do that. As for the duck, didn't happen. This has been gone over a billion times ad nauseum. DLH fight > Margs.

In all fairness, Margarito was an ******* by approaching Mayweather in person and asking for the fight Poor Floyd almost shat himself right there